Click to Play With the release of Zend Framework 1.8 lots of things changed internally, and so changed the way to test your applications. My presentation will go in depth into the new unit testing features and will give examples to test your application on several levels like database tables, web services, library components and… read more

Click to Play This presentation covers the use of geolocation information with PHP. I will start with a theorectical background of all the services, mapping systems etc involved. After that I will discuss how to use geo-services from PHP from obtaining geo-location information through databases and services, mapping services for visualisation of geo-aware data to… read more

Click to Play HipHop is a new PHP runtime written and open sourced by Facebook that takes advantage of the fact that there are many similarities between PHP and C++. HipHop converts PHP into semantically equivalent C++ removing the interpreted stages that can make PHP slow.This session will cover building HipHop, the minor conversions to… read more

Click to Play Heres the scenario: youve written a PHP application designed to run on Linux, Apache, and MySQL. Now you have a customer who wants to run it on Windows. Or using Oracle. Or they like Memcache instead of APC. How do you do it without sacrificing performance, stability, simplicity, and your own sanity?In… read more